Filling the Void: publishing within the digital repository Presented at ALA June 2008 Marilyn Billings Scholarly Communication Librarian University of Massachusetts, Amherst

June 30, 2008ALA June Outline of Talk  Bit of background  Scholarly Communication  Digital Publishing  New Partnerships and Roles

June 30, 2008ALA June UMass Amherst  UMass Amherst is flagship of UMass System  Students 26,000 students; of those 5,770 are grad students  Faculty 1,170  Academic 87 bachelor's degree programs, 6 associate's, 73 master’s and 51 doctoral programs in 10 schools and colleges  Research Over $134 million / year

June 30, 2008ALA June Scholarly Communication  Librarians’ roles in the scholarly communication cycle  Traditional modes Journals in the sciences Monographs in the humanities  “Crisis” of 1990s Spiraling publishing costs, especially journals Increasing volume of materials available in digital form Lack of access

June 30, 2008ALA June From: Lawrence, Steve. “Free online availability substantially increases a paper’s impact” Nature, v.411, 31 May 2001, p. 521.

June 30, 2008ALA June Scholarly Communication: Trends  Scholarly communication paradigm shift  Increasing amounts of research and scholarship in digital form  Need to collect and preserve this material

June 30, 2008ALA June Faculty Roles and Open Access  Faculty Roles Authors Peer-reviewers Editors  Open access options SPARC addendum Harvard resolution

June 30, 2008ALA June Transformation of scholarly publishing  Traditional  Electronic  Future models enabled by cyberinfrastructure From: Kennan, Mary Anne and Karlheinz Kautz. Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Searching for Understanding of an Emerging Phenomenon

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June 30, 2008ALA June Thanks for your attention  Contact information Marilyn Billings or